I am sure it will be more then up to the task. I have been trying to find something to do with my old DigitalAudio G4 (2x450 originally). It is not worth selling on Ebay, and a friend that I offered it to for free lost interest. So I decided to bring it down to work and use it as a web server test bed. Recently I was tasked with setting up a db /w web forms to interact with a piece of labeling software we use on the shop floor. We run IIS here (flame suit on), but don't have SQL server so I using MySQL since the database will only have ~3000 records in it. I have been doing most of my development at home on my MP, then pushing it to a Vmware virtual server we have running here. I would like to get away from that since we are running 2 other production VM's on that box and at times it gets bogged down. So last night I am in the garage and see the G4 sitting there and a light goes on. It has a PowerLogix dual upgrade in it (1.6 or 1.8 IIRC) at least 1gb of ram and 2 HD's. More then enough to run a nice little MAMP setup.
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Web server... a Good use for my old G4?
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Not that it matters, but you don't have a Digital Audio. DAs had 133mhz system buses. You've got a machine that's older than that.
Your right it is a Gigabit Ethernet, I get all the old names jumbled around some times.
Yup. Web server, internal server, or a slave in a cluster would ultimately be ideal for that machine. Although it will still work amazingly well for many other needs (video compression, CS2, stuff like that, just max out the RAM)...
A good home server. You can put in some hard drives, and have network storage for your home. Put movies, music, whatever on there.
I have an ancient celeron (400Mhz?) running as a home network storage server.
I have an ancient celeron (400Mhz?) running as a home network storage server.